THE RIGHT TO INNOCENCE
(C)1993 Alan M. Schwartz
"We are all steeped in the piety of rescuing Christ's fetal lambs
from the slaughter. We must seal those wombs against intrusion
of whose sinful bearers seek to murder the innocent souls spawned
of rape, incest or possessing the most loathsome and debilitating
of birth defects. That Christ so generously gave His martyred
Love upon the Cross that we might be cleansed of the indelible
stain of Original Sin is eternal statement and contract of our
right to abrogate the civil rights of any who dissent with His
Plan, as interpreted for the day by our priests. We are charged
with the heavenly burden of trespass, harassment, assault and
premeditated homicide of wanton sinners who will not heed us.
Death is called upon the land. Cleansing rivers of blood will
wash away any possibility of interfering with the natural course
of even the most unnatural conceptus. God's Will be done."
The Lambs of Christ were eating Shepherd's Pie, their own mutton,
when newly sworn President Clinton lifted the Federal gag order
restraining physicians from imparting full information about
birth control and abortion to their female patients. The Sheep
of Christ were shorn to learn that the Federal ban on research
upon and human therapy using fetal tissue was also lifted. The
Religious Right, so confident of their spiritual mission as they
waived partially decomposed aborted lumps of tissue and made a
nuisance of themselves to educated and cultured citizens, were
catapulted out of the media with two strokes of the Presidential
pen. Devastated lives were going to be improved, ill people were
to be cured, and a coterie of pissant yahoos were given no choice
but to go home and cower before their mighty Lord, ever watchful
and sore wroth, and maybe play with their privates a little.
Evil is, and demands feeding. Faced with the embarrassment of a
Southern Baptist cracker occupying the Oval Office but making
rational decisions instead of holy ones, the bearers of the Sword
of Christ regrouped. Championing the lives of Blacks and Browns
in the slums was dirty work and beneath their White supremacy.
Besides, they might be stuck with the work and the cost after
their rhetoric floated away on the winds. Dr. Jack Kavorkian was
the Devil himself relieving tortured lives of their pain - but he
fought back. Murders and rapists, that was the ticket! How
could these people be denied God's compassion to suffer execution
at the hands of the State? Death Row inmates were Christian to a
man! They were Saved. They would be saved! God's Will be done,
and pass the collection plate.
Federal courts were gearing up to wrest all private wealth from
the former middle class, President Clinton having redefined
anyone retaining employment in this time of abject economic
depression as being one with the officially despised rich. The
State could not be bothered by the caterwauling of God-soaked
psychotics filing briefs, being arrested, and generally clogging
the gears of what promised to be the greatest Federally mandated
seizure and destruction of individual assets since Kristallnacht.
Federal Ninth Circuit Judge Martius Poswilly had bought his
judgeship fair and square by decades of prostituting his honor
and good name to the greater cause of partisan politics. He was
damned if he was going to jeopardize his position now that the
real money was beginning to be laundered. Judge Poswilly himself
was the best kind of Christian, the kind that held the collection
plate rather than was offered it.
"The Court recognizes the validity of the petitioners' argument.
The Court agrees that no Christian gentleman, having been Reborn
by receiving Jesus Christ into his life and affirming his faith,
can be morally held by the State for execution. The ninety
prisoners currently resident on Death Row - convicted murderers,
rapists and other heinous criminals unrelieved of their sentence
by a prodigious number of appeals over the years - are by order
of this Court released from imprisonment and remanded to the
custody of the Christian petitioners and their families, one
prisoner per family as follows..."
"Said custodians will bear legal responsibility and full
financial liability - compensatory and punitive - for the good
behavior of their charges."
An amazing spiritual renaissance emerged as young daughters were
raped in their beds by Christian rapists, grandmothers were
murdered in their homes by Christian murderers, and God was
apparently preoccupied in another corner of His firmament while
his most fevered evangelists endured a test of their faith.
Judge Poswilly slept well at night knowing that whatever
transpired, society would be incrementally the better for it.
His personal savior was Bank of America, and the Wicked Witch of
the West died for his sins.